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Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.
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00:01:52Tell Melody to come here.
00:01:54But get moving.
00:02:03Somebody wants to see you, Melody.
00:02:05So tell them to look.
00:02:07Yeah, well, you'd better look.
00:02:08Standing right over there.
00:02:17I'm so glad to see you.
00:02:19Why don't you get out of here?
00:02:19Relax, kid, relax.
00:02:21Rode the rods all night to get here.
00:02:23All swelled it.
00:02:24Did you break out?
00:02:25Good behavior.
00:02:27Where can we talk?
00:02:28Outside.
00:02:29Come on.
00:02:29Hey, you.
00:02:30Where are you going?
00:02:31Outside.
00:02:31This is my pal.
00:02:32You're on the ivories.
00:02:33Yeah, yeah, I know.
00:02:34I'll be back.
00:02:35Maybe.
00:02:36Be back in ten minutes or you're out of business.
00:02:40With you in town, that piano job don't mean nothing.
00:02:42Do you have anything in mind?
00:02:44Yeah.
00:02:44Something really big.
00:02:46Where is it?
00:02:48Hey, fryer.
00:02:49Only the big boy ain't okayed me yet.
00:02:52He'll okay me.
00:02:54Yeah, yeah, that's what I figured.
00:03:11Sounds like an interesting setup.
00:03:13With you in on it, it's worth a million.
00:03:21Big stuff grows in strange places, eh, Melody?
00:03:25Here it grows out of test tubes.
00:03:30What do you want, Melody?
00:03:32I want to see the doctor.
00:03:33I got the right guy to handle that job for.
00:03:36What is your friend's name?
00:03:38Grosome.
00:03:41Isn't he?
00:03:43Come in.
00:03:50Our employer is in the midst of an experiment.
00:03:53Your friend will have to wait.
00:03:54Go back and finish your job.
00:03:56I don't need that job now.
00:03:57Go anyhow.
00:03:58I'll handle the doctor.
00:04:00Okay, I'll see you tonight, eh?
00:04:01Boy, am I glad you're in town.
00:04:03Make yourself comfortable.
00:04:05But please don't touch anything.
00:04:07No?
00:04:07Why?
00:04:08It isn't advisable.
00:04:46Come on.
00:05:05Oh, oh!
00:05:25Melody.
00:05:28Melody.
00:05:40Come on, come on, Mac, up.
00:05:43Oh, come on, come on, get up out of there.
00:06:03What's the trouble, Carney?
00:06:04Oh, just another drunk.
00:06:05This is the fifth time I've called a wagon tonight.
00:06:08I'm on my way down to headquarters to pick up Big Tracy.
00:06:10Can I take him along for you?
00:06:11Don't doubt I'd appreciate, Pat.
00:06:13Well, where is he?
00:06:14He's lying in the doorway of that joint back there.
00:06:40Oh, come on.
00:06:44Oh.
00:06:59That's funny, Pat.
00:07:00Not enough alcohol to have killed him.
00:07:03He had no pulse and no heartbeat.
00:07:05So what did the big lug die of?
00:07:06A broken heart?
00:07:07I don't know, but Doc Ross can tell you tomorrow after the autopsy.
00:07:11I've been in this racket a long time,
00:07:13but I've never seen anything like this before.
00:07:15You say he was dead?
00:07:16He was limp when you picked him up ten minutes ago.
00:07:17Limp is a playboy's alibi.
00:07:19Ten minutes later, he's like this.
00:07:20Then it wasn't time for rigor mortis to set in.
00:07:22No time at all.
00:07:24Want to take a guess at what's eaten him?
00:07:25Yes, I could guess, but it wouldn't mean anything.
00:07:27Except I think it's the case for homicide.
00:07:29Careful of your language, Frankie.
00:07:31He died in my car.
00:07:32But he didn't get whatever's wrong with him in your car.
00:07:34Right.
00:07:35So a corpse coming out of Hangman's knot's gotta be murder, huh?
00:07:37Probably.
00:07:39You say you found this on him?
00:07:41Loaded for bear.
00:07:42And his suit had the feel of a big house hand-me-down.
00:07:44That's sharp observing, ain't it?
00:07:50Why don't you have Tracy take a look at him?
00:07:52I think I will.
00:07:53But if he has the answer to a drunk turning to stone, I give up.
00:08:04Hi, Sergeant.
00:08:05I wouldn't go in there now, Pat, if I was you.
00:08:07You mean I shouldn't go in?
00:08:08Nobody.
00:08:09Dick's got a VIP in there.
00:08:11VIP?
00:08:12A very important personage.
00:08:13In that case, I'll not.
00:08:18Excuse me, Dick, but I think I just brought in a homicide.
00:08:21Anyway, he's a mighty funny stiff.
00:08:23Funny?
00:08:24I'll be right with you.
00:08:25Come over to the morgue, huh?
00:08:26Right.
00:08:29I'm sorry, Dr. Tomick.
00:08:30Go on.
00:08:30For instance, when I'd arrive home at night, I'd find figures lurking in the shadows near my house.
00:08:36Why didn't you report this sooner?
00:08:38I...
00:08:39Well, I hoped that my wife and I were wrong.
00:08:41These people weren't really stalking me at all.
00:08:43What makes you so sure how they were?
00:08:45And two attempts were made within a week to run me down by car.
00:08:48We have a lot of reckless drivers in this town, Doctor.
00:08:51Yes, I know, but...
00:08:52Why do you think someone wanted to kill you?
00:08:55I don't know.
00:08:56I've no idea.
00:08:58Of course, like many scientists, I'm working on new and rare formulae at the university all the...
00:09:02Very little we can do for you, Doctor, but offer you police protection.
00:09:06I just like troubling you, but...
00:09:08I am worried.
00:09:10Well, Chief, this isn't a case for me, so if you don't...
00:09:12Run along, Dick.
00:09:13We'll take care of the doctor.
00:09:14I'm sorry I can't stay, but my assistant has a slight case of homicide on his hands.
00:09:18Good luck.
00:09:19Now, see here, Doctor.
00:09:21Let's review the facts.
00:09:50It's just a, it's just a minute to start the night.
00:09:53I'll do something.
00:09:54Oh, let me know.
00:09:54You've got one of my favorites.
00:09:55You know what?
00:09:59I'm here.
00:10:00You've got me.
00:11:31Pat.
00:11:33Did you get his number?
00:11:34Sure, sure.
00:11:35What happened, Pat?
00:11:36Oh.
00:11:39You're asking me.
00:11:40I'm sitting here, see, writing out this report on the stiff.
00:11:43All of a sudden, blackout.
00:11:45Something hit me here.
00:11:46A crowbar, maybe, or a small bulldozer.
00:11:49I don't see how anybody could have got in here, Dick.
00:11:51Frankie put the stiff on this slab.
00:11:53He was out cold, just like he is now.
00:11:56The stiff, the mug, where is he?
00:11:58Looks like you had a drunk who woke up, Pat.
00:11:59He just outfoxed you, that's all.
00:12:01Outfoxed me, huh?
00:12:02I tell you he was dead.
00:12:04Oh, don't look at me like that, Dick.
00:12:05You know I haven't had so much as a short beer since I joined the force.
00:12:08I tell you I brought in an absolutely dead stiff.
00:12:11Okay, but if that's true, then you're just confused.
00:12:13There's a stiff in the other room.
00:12:14What?
00:12:15Why didn't you say so?
00:12:16Come on.
00:12:17What I want to know is who moved that stiff, stiff, stiff.
00:12:21So he outfoxed me, did he?
00:12:23What's that make you?
00:12:24I admit it, Pat.
00:12:24He tricked me, too.
00:12:25One minute he's dead.
00:12:26The next he slugs me, tricked you and Vamoost.
00:12:28Smart man.
00:12:29Smart?
00:12:30He's weird.
00:12:31I tell you, if I didn't know better, I'd swear we'd be doing business with Boris Karloff.
00:12:34Looks that way.
00:12:38Valaday.
00:12:40Did you find him?
00:12:41Would I be back here without him if I did?
00:12:45Oh, that stuff he got must have killed him.
00:12:47Nonsense.
00:12:48It was one of the early experiments of the doctor's medical formula.
00:12:52But what did it do to him?
00:12:53Potent but harmless.
00:12:54It just rendered him helpless.
00:12:56Helpless?
00:12:57Oh, that's great.
00:12:59Gruesome helpless and the cop's hot on his trail.
00:13:01Exactly.
00:13:01So he is of no use to us any longer.
00:13:05If he does come back, you must tell him the deal is off.
00:13:07What are you talking about?
00:13:08That guy knows his way around.
00:13:09He is no good to us now.
00:13:11We must be rid of him.
00:13:12The doctor...
00:13:13The doctor will be disturbed by your stupid chatter.
00:13:16You'll get rid of whom?
00:13:17No, no.
00:13:17Please.
00:13:17Please, Gruesome.
00:13:18He didn't mean it.
00:13:18He needs you.
00:13:19We all need you, Gruesome.
00:13:20Please.
00:13:20Exactly.
00:13:21As the doctor just said, you know your business, but I know mine.
00:13:25You mean you spoke to the doctor?
00:13:28Yes, I've had a talk with him.
00:13:33You're a disgraced doctor of science, correct?
00:13:35Yes, but I...
00:13:36No buts.
00:13:37The doctor stumbled on a great racket, but he needs me to make it work for him.
00:13:41So from now on, you two will do exactly what I say.
00:13:44Now get in there.
00:13:45Keep your mouth shut and listen.
00:13:46Tomorrow is the most important day in your stupid lives.
00:14:09Two and a half minutes to go.
00:14:27Hey, Harry, come here.
00:14:29I told you to get that cat out of here.
00:14:31Now get him out.
00:14:32Psst.
00:14:35Psst.
00:14:36Psst.
00:14:36Psst.
00:14:37Psst.
00:14:38Psst.
00:14:39Psst.
00:14:39Psst.
00:14:40Psst.
00:14:54Psst.
00:14:57Afternoon, Mr. Blord.
00:14:58Hello, Mr. Stone.
00:14:59Ten, twenty, thirty.
00:15:01How's Mr. Tracy?
00:15:02Well, he's fine, thanks.
00:15:04Bye.
00:15:04Goodbye.
00:15:36Look at him.
00:15:37There's something wrong with him.
00:15:42And him.
00:15:48You heard me.
00:16:21The air is clear. Lock the door.
00:16:25Hey, gruesome, I want of you look as silly as they do.
00:16:27Lock the door.
00:16:48Oh.
00:16:49Oh.
00:16:52Eh, pardon me, Mac, do you mind?
00:17:04What's your matter, buddy?
00:17:05Tandrin?
00:17:08Mallory.
00:17:08Yeah, yeah, come and go.
00:17:27Oh.
00:17:29Oh.
00:17:33Oh.
00:17:33Yeah, definitely.
00:18:00There we go.
00:18:03Witnessing a robbery.
00:18:05Dead?
00:18:07Frozen?
00:18:08Uh-huh.
00:18:09OK, honey, don't lose your nerve.
00:18:10We'll be right there.
00:18:13This is Tracy.
00:18:14Notify all cars in the area of 4th and Grove.
00:18:16Bank robbery.
00:18:17First National.
00:18:50That's extra.
00:18:50Let's get out of here.
00:18:53Of course, there was a dame in that boat.
00:18:54Oh, Mark.
00:18:54Keep going.
00:19:28Come on, come on.
00:19:28Probably die before you hit the ground.
00:19:29Move these people back.
00:19:30Move back a little, folks.
00:19:31Come on.
00:19:32Come on, move back.
00:19:33Take care of everything, Jim.
00:19:34OK, Jake.
00:19:45Tess, Tess, come out of it.
00:19:47Come out of what?
00:19:48I'm all right.
00:19:51Well, she's alive anyway.
00:19:53If I hadn't been in the booth, I'd have gotten it too.
00:19:56But you see...
00:19:57Wait a minute.
00:19:58Payment on Thursday or the bank will be forced to foreclose.
00:20:01But I tell you, I can't.
00:20:05You heard the man say they want a cash bonus?
00:20:07Oh, that's it.
00:20:10Mr. Crandall.
00:20:11Mr. Crandall.
00:20:12The dollar's worth of change, please.
00:20:15Yes, of course.
00:20:24Achoo!
00:20:26Achoo, Ernie!
00:20:32You'll have to leave now, sir.
00:20:34It's 3 o'clock.
00:20:40You see, pal?
00:20:41You were only half dead.
00:20:43I don't question your word, Mr. Tracy.
00:20:46There undoubtedly was a bank robbery, but not here.
00:20:49Not here.
00:20:49They sent you to the wrong bank.
00:20:51Mr. Banks.
00:20:52Mr. Banks, over $100,000 has disappeared.
00:20:55Oh, that's fine.
00:20:56Right under our noses.
00:20:58What?
00:20:59This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
00:21:01Two minutes ago, everybody was paralyzed.
00:21:04Frozen, stiff, and now look at them.
00:21:05They're perfectly normal.
00:21:07No one leaves until everybody's been questioned.
00:21:10Line them all up over there.
00:21:11Right.
00:21:11This way, folks.
00:21:14How many men in the stick-up crew?
00:21:16Two.
00:21:17Did they wear masks?
00:21:18No.
00:21:18One was coarse-looking and the other one was...
00:21:20Fine.
00:21:20Tell me later.
00:21:21How long was it between the freezing act and their entrance?
00:21:24About a minute.
00:21:25You mean this knockout stuff was instant?
00:21:27Incest?
00:21:28Right away?
00:21:28Well, it couldn't have been more than two minutes at the most.
00:21:31How do you feel?
00:21:32All right, Mr. Tracy.
00:21:33That's what's so darn queer.
00:21:34I still can't believe I was out cold for 12 or 14 minutes.
00:21:37Just wait till I tell my wife.
00:21:39When I get...
00:21:39Oh, right now, I'd rather you told me what you were doing
00:21:41and how you felt when this stuff hit you.
00:21:42Sure.
00:21:43You bet.
00:21:43Like I was telling your sidekick here,
00:21:45I'm standing right here watching the clock, see?
00:21:47Not that I'm a clock-watching guy ordinarily.
00:21:48Skip it, pal.
00:21:49Get to the pail.
00:21:50Huh?
00:21:50Yeah, sure.
00:21:51Like I was telling your sidekick,
00:21:53you see, it's my wife's sister's birthday,
00:21:54and I says to myself, I says,
00:21:55Humphrey, when you get home...
00:21:55He was pulling down the shade.
00:21:57Yeah.
00:21:58That's right.
00:21:58How'd you know?
00:21:59Here.
00:22:00Like this.
00:22:01Like this I was.
00:22:02Right about there.
00:22:03No.
00:22:04Here, maybe.
00:22:04Did you feel yourself slipping?
00:22:06Nah, positively no warning at all.
00:22:08Do you think you were the first one affected by this gas?
00:22:10No.
00:22:10The first man to go was standing right over there.
00:22:13Show me how he was standing.
00:22:14All right.
00:22:16As I remember,
00:22:17he was standing right here with his coat open, like this.
00:22:19Well, that's enough.
00:22:20Take him with you, Pat, and see if you can find that man.
00:22:22Come on.
00:22:22Or was it like this?
00:22:24Relax, Gabby.
00:22:24Let's find the guy.
00:22:25I know we had one hand sticking out.
00:22:27Now, let's see.
00:22:28You've had everyone in the bank checked on.
00:22:30Everyone.
00:22:31They all have legitimate addresses.
00:22:33No suspicious characters.
00:22:33And you're having this screwy gas analyzed.
00:22:36Fred has off his left in the shell casing.
00:22:37I expect to report any minute.
00:22:39And the getaway car was stolen.
00:22:40Picked up on the turnpike.
00:22:41No distinguishable fingerprints.
00:22:43The banking commission is panicky, Dick.
00:22:45If this gets to the papers, they're afraid of a wholesale run on every bank in town.
00:22:51I told you Tracy was busy.
00:22:53It's okay, Sarge.
00:22:54Tracy wants to see me, right?
00:22:56Dick has nothing to say to the press, Dan.
00:22:57No?
00:22:58In that case, the press has a hot word for him.
00:23:00It's headlines.
00:23:00Shall I go?
00:23:01It's okay, Sarge.
00:23:02Thanks.
00:23:03What I have to say should be private, boys, for your sake.
00:23:05Spill it, Dan.
00:23:06We're busy.
00:23:06I know.
00:23:06And stump.
00:23:07Fellas, I was the only news hawk to get to a certain bank before you had everybody's
00:23:11mouth buttoned up like a West Pointer on inspection.
00:23:13How much do you know, Dan?
00:23:14Remember the bank guard for the end of gab?
00:23:16You can't print a word of it, Dan.
00:23:17Look, Dick, I play ball usually, but not with gas bombs.
00:23:19This will be the biggest thing hit the streets since George Patton broke the bow.
00:23:22This is a war of a sort, too, Dan.
00:23:24A war on small investors.
00:23:26If you break silence before we can move in, no bank in the state can escape a run on it.
00:23:29How long do you want?
00:23:30Twenty-four hours.
00:23:31I'll settle for the four.
00:23:32That'll get me in the final edition.
00:23:33We don't have a thing in four hours.
00:23:35That bad, eh?
00:23:36Right now, we haven't got a lead to the interest of bloodhounds.
00:23:38So, then I think my readers should know what they're up against.
00:23:40Give us till morning, at least, Dan.
00:23:42Say, Dick, this is an absolutely unknown chemical.
00:23:44We've given it every...
00:23:45Yeah.
00:23:45Why don't you look before you...
00:23:46Unknown chemical.
00:23:47Twenty people frozen to the spot by absolutely unknown chemical while bank is casually robbed
00:23:51of at least two hundred grand.
00:23:52It was only a hundred.
00:23:53Thanks.
00:23:53That much I didn't know.
00:23:54Until morning, Dan, please.
00:23:56We don't sell a morning paper, Dick.
00:23:57Exclusive, Dan.
00:23:57You can sell it to the syndicates.
00:23:59To hit the morning rags, I'd have to have all the details by 2 a.m.
00:24:012 a.m.?
00:24:02You hidebinder.
00:24:03Well, that's only ten hours from now.
00:24:04You're quick, Chief.
00:24:05Okay, Dan.
00:24:06It's a deal.
00:24:062 a.m.
00:24:07Good luck.
00:24:14I'm sorry, Chief.
00:24:16Forget it.
00:24:16That ferret could dig salt out of Big Rock Candy Mountain.
00:24:20This chemical is so new, it isn't even registered.
00:24:22Is that it, Fred?
00:24:22Yeah, that's right, Dick.
00:24:24Think Dr. Tommick at State University could spot it?
00:24:26Sure, if anyone could.
00:24:27Tommick.
00:24:28That's the man who was complaining about threats on his life.
00:24:30Yes.
00:24:30Top flight physicist.
00:24:32Look, Chief.
00:24:32With only ten hours before the panic hits, it's about...
00:24:34It's worth a try.
00:24:35What else have we got?
00:24:36Well, there's always Pat's living corpse.
00:24:37Oh, that.
00:24:39A shot in the dark.
00:24:40So is this.
00:24:40If Tommick can tell us what it is, we at least have a lead.
00:24:53Oh, may I help you?
00:24:55Yes, I'm Dick Tracy from headquarters.
00:24:57I'd like to...
00:24:57Oh, I'm so glad you've come, Mr. Tracy.
00:24:59Have you any news of him?
00:25:00Of whom?
00:25:02Of Dr. Tommick.
00:25:03Isn't that why you're here?
00:25:05But I came to see him.
00:25:06Is anything wrong?
00:25:08Well, yes, but I...
00:25:09I thought you knew.
00:25:11He's disappeared.
00:25:13When?
00:25:14He left home early this morning and hasn't been seen since.
00:25:17His wife was very worried and I thought she reported his absence to you.
00:25:21It's the first I've heard of it.
00:25:23Are you his assistant?
00:25:24Yes, I'm Professor Lernard.
00:25:25You will find him, won't you, Mr. Tracy?
00:25:28We'll certainly try.
00:25:29Can you think of any reason why Dr. Tommick would want to disappear?
00:25:33No.
00:25:34Uh, what did you have in mind?
00:25:37Nothing in particular.
00:25:39Still, I'd like you to check any special or secret formulae he might have been working on.
00:25:42Just to make sure they haven't been removed.
00:25:44Of course.
00:25:45Will you wait here, please?
00:25:46I'd rather come along if you don't mind.
00:25:48Oh, not at all.
00:25:50Dr. Tommick always keeps his most valuable formulae in that locked cabinet.
00:25:54They're quite safe there.
00:25:56You have the keys, of course.
00:25:57Yes, but I'm certain nothing has been disturbed.
00:25:59Would you open it anyway, please?
00:26:00Very well.
00:26:14Do you know what each of these bottles contains?
00:26:16I know they're chemical symbols, if that's what you mean.
00:26:19Not exactly.
00:26:20Could any of them, say, mixed with another chemical form a dangerous gas?
00:26:24I hardly know.
00:26:25These particular ones are in experimental stages.
00:26:28Only Dr. Tommick could tell you that.
00:26:31How about this clear liquid on the end?
00:26:33What's its purpose?
00:26:33I really don't know.
00:26:34It's so new, it doesn't even have a name.
00:26:37New, huh?
00:26:38Is that so?
00:26:39But I'd like to...
00:26:39Oh, please don't touch anything, Mr. Tracy.
00:26:41At least until Dr. Tommick returns.
00:26:44If he returns, huh?
00:26:45You mean there's a chance that he won't?
00:26:47It's part of my job to see that he does.
00:26:50You won't mind my taking a little of this for testing?
00:26:52Well, I hardly know what to say in Dr. Tommick's absence.
00:26:58Perhaps we can test it here.
00:26:59In fact, I'd be glad to test it for you.
00:27:01I'd rather take it with me.
00:27:03Very well.
00:27:07You see, there was a bank robbery today.
00:27:10Some strange chemical was employed.
00:27:13Everyone in the bank was transfixed.
00:27:14Frozen to the spot.
00:27:24Startled?
00:27:25Shocked.
00:27:26You see, I work so close to science,
00:27:28I have every reason to dread the creation of such gases.
00:27:31I didn't say it was a gas.
00:27:32Well, what else could it be?
00:27:34I don't know.
00:27:38But it was a gas.
00:27:40Doesn't seem to stain or burn the surface, does it?
00:27:42No.
00:27:43Anything in it that will hurt me if I taste it?
00:27:46I think not, but I can't be too sure.
00:27:48Let's see.
00:27:52Tastes like water.
00:27:54Many chemicals do.
00:27:55Get me an empty bottle and a rag, will you?
00:28:01Professor Learner.
00:28:02Yes?
00:28:03Could a man in Tommick's position be leading a double life?
00:28:06Hardly.
00:28:06He's one of the most respected men in his profession.
00:28:10Yet he came to headquarters complaining of attempts on his life the night before he disappeared.
00:28:15It's been my experience, Professor, but that could be the act of an innocent man.
00:28:21Or of a man covering his tracks.
00:28:23Perhaps.
00:28:24But not Dr. Tommick.
00:28:26His whole life is an open book.
00:28:28Beyond suspicion.
00:28:29I guess you're right.
00:28:31I know I'm right.
00:28:32Well, thank you, Professor.
00:28:33I'll be back when I have this analyzed.
00:28:35Very well, Mr. Tracy.
00:28:36But it isn't Walter.
00:28:38Probably not.
00:28:44You've been a big help.
00:28:46Goodbye.
00:28:46Goodbye, Mr. Tracy.
00:28:57I still say you didn't have to shoot him.
00:28:59What gruesome he saw is coming out of the bank.
00:29:01Seeing and identifying weeks, maybe months later, are two different things.
00:29:05But I still...
00:29:06You're just a trigger-happy young mug, you always were.
00:29:09Better get over it.
00:29:10You're a fine guy to be bawling me out.
00:29:12Useless killing is dangerous.
00:29:15Well, it's about time.
00:29:17Yeah, we thought maybe you took a party.
00:29:19Hardly.
00:29:20That's good.
00:29:20Gruesome hates Welchers.
00:29:21I don't hate dead ones, Melody.
00:29:23Our employer is a man of honor.
00:29:26There's one for you.
00:29:28One for you.
00:29:29What are these?
00:29:30Valentines?
00:29:31The doctor is very businesslike.
00:29:32That is your remuneration.
00:29:35Mine's kind of finished.
00:29:36Not much thinner.
00:29:38Gruesome got the bonus for not killing a policeman.
00:29:41How do you like that?
00:29:42We don't like it.
00:29:43We don't like it at all.
00:29:45Go back and tell your employer I'm not an employee.
00:29:48I'm a partner.
00:29:49I want 50%.
00:29:50What about me?
00:29:51I'll pay you more than you're worth.
00:29:53Goodbye, X-Ray.
00:29:54Well, I'll ask him.
00:29:56No, tell him.
00:29:5750% on everything.
00:29:58Very well.
00:30:00Oh, our employer told me to tell you he wishes you would not come to the laboratory anymore.
00:30:07At all?
00:30:08At all.
00:30:09I see.
00:30:10Tell him I'll do what he says for exactly 15 minutes.
00:30:14Oh, please.
00:30:14Unless, of course, you're back within that time with half the take.
00:30:17Better hurry, X-Ray.
00:30:20Gruesome, you're terrific.
00:30:22Remember that, Melody.
00:30:24Sure, Gusen.
00:30:25Sure, sure.
00:30:28We, uh, found him right about here, Dick.
00:30:31Well, let's take a look around the inside.
00:30:33Maybe we'll get a line on something.
00:30:41Gusen and Paulson.
00:31:07Hey, you.
00:31:11It's him!
00:31:13Hey!
00:31:15Hey, you!
00:31:15Hey, you.
00:31:23Hey, you!
00:31:24Hey!
00:31:28Hey, you!
00:31:30Hey, you!
00:31:32Hey!
00:31:40Hey, hey!
00:31:41Hey!
00:31:50The End
00:32:19Melody! Melody!
00:32:36I'll take him, Dick. I owe him something.
00:33:10I'll take him.
00:34:10Hey, where are you?
00:34:11Here.
00:34:13are you all right yeah it was him dick that drunken step where did he go he got away
00:34:18well that's a lead anyway what happened to you what happened to me i was standing right over
00:34:23there and all of a sudden i was no i'm not gonna tell you come on pat what happened to
00:34:31you
00:34:31okay i was bit by a tiger oh that tiger you're sure that you can identify this man tess yes
00:34:42i'm
00:34:43positive he's one of the bank robbers good now if he'll only live long enough to start talking
00:34:47dick we've rounded up some of the people who were in the bank they're out in the hallway
00:34:50okay pat bring them in tess you better wait in the chief's office all right tess did identify him
00:34:56yes but that's not enough you've got to find one of those bank witnesses who saw him in or around
00:35:01the bank about 245 why 245 couldn't he have had the bomb at 230 or even before that no the
00:35:07janitor
00:35:07emptied the wastebaskets at 245 so if anyone saw this bird in the bank after that time he planted
00:35:11the bomb nurse what's wrong we can't die on us now get those people in here pat quick
00:35:18okay folks
00:35:24sorry dick you'll have to leave he's much too ill to have anyone in here now but just two minutes
00:35:28doc i can't do it he only has a 50 50 chances it is well that's that have those people
00:35:34go to my
00:35:34office pat we'll do what we can okay folks let's go
00:35:41first of all i want to thank you people for coming now i'd like to ask you a few simple
00:35:45questions does anyone recognize this man i'm sure i never saw him before well now i'm a bank guard
00:35:50you see we know that of course you do you know that bank guards have to be observing now if
00:35:53that man
00:35:54was in the bank it stands to reason i'd remember him don't it it does do you no i uh
00:35:58could be wrong
00:35:58mr tracy but i think that man passed me at the bank door i think he was coming out as
00:36:03i was going
00:36:03in do you happen to recall what time that was mr fall yes i do i looked up at the
00:36:07clock as i came
00:36:08in it was exactly 10 minutes to three good turn around luke
00:36:15obviously this man wearing the bandit's clothes is not the bandit
00:36:18this is a drawing of the actual man would you say you'd seen this man before mr fall
00:36:24i'm almost certain that's the face of the man who passed me at the bank door
00:36:28thank you anyone else see him no no all right that's all oh one thing more please don't any of
00:36:35you discuss this case with the newspapers that's very important in fact i'd rather you didn't discuss
00:36:39with anyone for a day or two and thank you again yes sir we're going out now but i'm coming
00:36:48i said i've still got six hours dan and nothing to say nothing to say about a top flight scientist
00:36:53who's missing hello you're talking greek dan yes chief don't give me that you knew tomic was missing
00:37:00before i did just a minute chief i've got the human ferret in my office tomic who's tomic a physicist
00:37:05my boy with an assistant named learned remember i'm giving his disappearance a build-up
00:37:09tonight dick wait a minute dan i'll call you later chief you gave me your work dan and i still
00:37:14have six hours left then you do think tomic is involved in the bank robbery i honestly don't know
00:37:18but if he is and you publish his disappearance it might spoil everything for me all right six
00:37:22hours but i get first break at anything you uncover right right dan keep your nose clean
00:37:27hello tess hello dan what's new ask your boyfriend dick this hold it fred oh you again
00:37:34goodbye dan be seeing you in about five hours and 22 minutes
00:37:43i think i know what you're going to tell me anyway i should see a certain professor at state
00:37:55university right away correct correct and quick and see you later honey but we had a date for dinner
00:38:01i'm having mine with a professor oh well since it's only a professor a beautiful feminine professor
00:38:06and you expect me to be here when you get back no then i will be that's what i thought
00:38:11goodbye dick
00:38:37oh lee where have you been it's over an hour since i talked with you i'm sorry i had
00:38:41important business you look worried dearest what's the trouble that chemical i stole for you
00:38:47what did you do with it why i used it for my anesthetic experiments what do you suppose
00:38:56i suppose you either gave it or sold it to a gang of bank robbers
00:39:00what are you talking about the police are analyzing the water i substituted for the formula i stole for
00:39:05you well what i'll bet the moment dr tomic returns they'll they'll know i substituted the water
00:39:12oh we'll be far away by then what if he returns now tonight he won't um you've done something to
00:39:20him he's perfectly safe he'll return home in duke time quite unharmed
00:39:28i can't i can't go through with it that detective i i can't go online to him i don't know
00:39:35how
00:39:36it won't be for long he had hardly left when a when a reporter came he asked me so many
00:39:42questions
00:39:42i didn't know where i was did he ask about tomic of course splendid his disappearance will make
00:39:50headlines tracy and his cops will be forced into a manhunt that'll leave us in the clear
00:39:55i won't help blacken the character of a decent man i can't
00:40:01very well tell them tell them everything is that what you want homer darling no it isn't but
00:40:11can't we do something can't we go away now tonight police have requested that i don't leave town
00:40:19your friend tracy tracy what do you think i'd put that formula in the hands of thugs i placed it
00:40:25in the bank myself you didn't you couldn't i had to irma i tell you with tomic missing we're in
00:40:33the
00:40:33clear there isn't a thing to worry about dearest i'll drive you to within a block of your house
00:40:41no i'll walk to the cab stand we can't listen to the scene together
00:40:59good evening
00:41:01well mr tracy how did you get here it was easy illegal too illegal what is am i breaking into
00:41:09your place and searching your things without a warrant
00:41:10i should think so why did you do it why did you tell me i wouldn't find water in that
00:41:15bottle
00:41:16you didn't
00:41:18you're a biochemist why try to pretend you didn't know what was in that bottle
00:41:22you forget mr tracy you tasted whatever was in it not i
00:41:26i was so sure it wasn't water that i
00:41:28why
00:41:30why
00:41:33because i can see no reason why dr tomic would make such a substitution
00:41:37neither can i in fact i don't think he did but obviously he had to
00:41:41he and i are the only two people who have the key to that lock
00:41:46so i say you made the substitution not tomic
00:41:50if what you found in that bottle really was water
00:41:53and you're not just trying to trick me because of some fantastic notion that i mixed up with bandits
00:41:58then all i can say is dr tomic put it there i didn't
00:42:04and uh might i suggest that you spend your time looking for him instead of badgering me
00:42:10i'm badgering you because i think you know something about his disappearance
00:42:14either you're shielding him or you're shielding someone else
00:42:16why why should i do i look like the kind of person who goes around shielding bank robbers and murderers
00:42:22frankly no but i think you got in over your head
00:42:25and now you don't see any way out but lying
00:42:28i'm not lying
00:42:30i think you are
00:42:31consider this professor
00:42:33whoever got hold of that formula will stop at nothing to keep it
00:42:36murdering a bank guard is only the beginning
00:42:39right now they're accused of murder
00:42:41if you're involved in it you're an accessory to murder
00:42:43and your only chance of getting less than hung is to play ball on the right team
00:42:46but i tell you i don't know anything
00:42:48i heard you the first time
00:42:50just the same when i leave here i advise you to get in touch with someone
00:42:53who
00:42:54whomever you're shielding
00:42:56tell them that no amount of money or fame or love or whatever it is you're doing it for
00:42:59is worth putting your neck in a noose
00:43:05it's a nice neck professor
00:43:07but that murdered bank guard had four kids
00:43:10they liked his pretty well too
00:43:36you cover the back
00:43:37if she doesn't come out in two hours go back to headquarters
00:43:39right
00:43:48hello lee
00:43:48you may have been called here
00:43:50don't call me by name
00:43:52i can't stand it
00:43:53you you you've got to take me away
00:43:57i tell you there's nothing to worry about dearest
00:43:59you'll feel better after you've had some sleep
00:44:01i can't leave
00:44:04i'm going to tell them the truth
00:44:06you can't do that
00:44:07not yet dearest
00:44:09it's risky but perhaps we'd better leave town tonight
00:44:12but i thought you said you couldn't
00:44:14perhaps i can find a way
00:44:15but you must meet me at once and talk this out
00:44:20very well irma
00:44:22if we don't figure a way out
00:44:24i'll i'll go to the police with you
00:44:26but we must talk first irma
00:44:28i'm not in this alone
00:44:30meet me at six and park in ten minutes
00:44:32walk there and be sure you're not followed
00:44:35goodbye
00:44:37you can't meet her of course
00:44:40what are you doing here
00:44:41i told him
00:44:42i'm telling you
00:44:43you can't meet her the cops
00:44:45i saw you in the bank
00:44:46this is a frame-up between the girl and the police
00:44:48oh monson she's frightened and so are you
00:44:51listen
00:44:53i'll meet her
00:44:53you're known to the police too
00:44:55i've handled them before
00:44:56give me the keys to your car
00:44:58all right but don't bring her here
00:45:00no sure not
00:45:01say
00:45:03you spoke of a cottage on brand lake
00:45:05yes that's it
00:45:06take her there
00:45:07route 76 cottage 14
00:45:09just off the road
00:45:10tell her i'll be up later tonight
00:45:11you'll convince her she mustn't go to the police
00:45:14oh yes i must do that
00:45:16you're right
00:45:17we must
00:45:20gruesome
00:45:21yeah
00:45:22take care of her
00:45:24she's all i have
00:45:25sure sure
00:45:28i understand
00:45:52uh yeah
00:45:55know
00:45:55uh
00:46:00do
00:46:29Let's go.
00:47:00Let's go.
00:47:01I've got to get rid of that car quickly.
00:47:03Why? What's wrong with it?
00:47:04Where is she?
00:47:04Picked up some bullet holes on the way.
00:47:07She is dead.
00:47:09I told you to get rid of that car.
00:47:11You...
00:47:12You...
00:47:12You killed her.
00:47:17You killed her.
00:47:18What do you suppose I do?
00:47:19She was leaving Tracy directly to you.
00:47:21Oh, no, she wouldn't.
00:47:22I say she was, but right now we've got to get rid of the evidence here.
00:47:25All of it, you understand.
00:47:27Now go start that fire.
00:47:28Must there be more killings?
00:47:29Yes, we have to.
00:47:31We've got to get Melody out of that hospital tonight and then clear out of here.
00:47:34I've been to the hospital.
00:47:36He's in a coma.
00:47:37The doctor wouldn't even let him be seen.
00:47:39He'll be dead by morning.
00:47:40You're certain of that?
00:47:41Certain as I can be.
00:47:43Good.
00:47:44Then we're in the clear.
00:47:45You don't care about anyone, do you?
00:47:46Listen, if you want to stay alive, you'll do as I say.
00:47:49Now start that fire.
00:47:50I'll be inside.
00:47:51You expect me to use that fire?
00:47:52Call me when it's ready.
00:47:58What would you do without me?
00:48:02I'd even find Dan and romance him if you thought it would give you a little more time.
00:48:06Thanks, but he's already married to a typewriter.
00:48:10There's one consolation, though.
00:48:11Those crooks are just as worried as I am.
00:48:13That killing that girl was an act of cold-blooded desperation.
00:48:16Do you think Dr. Tomick had her shot?
00:48:18That's anybody's guess.
00:48:19You trace the license number.
00:48:21Sure, or stolen plates.
00:48:22But if you put two bullets into the back end of that car, we'll pick it up in no time.
00:48:26Time is something I'm fresh out of.
00:48:27If Dr. Carver could only fix up those other two crooks so they could talk.
00:48:31Said he'd call me in 10 minutes.
00:48:33It's been 15.
00:48:37This is Tracy.
00:48:39What about that smashed up piano player?
00:48:41Just died.
00:48:42What?
00:48:43When?
00:48:43About 10 minutes ago.
00:48:45Thanks.
00:48:45Oh, no.
00:48:48We could have sweated it out of that guy.
00:48:50But he had to go die on us, too.
00:48:52Well, dead men tell no tales.
00:48:55What did you say?
00:48:56I said dead men tell no tales.
00:48:58But sometimes they do, Tess.
00:48:59Sometimes they do.
00:49:00Where are you going?
00:49:01See the chief.
00:49:02Get an okay on an idea that'll make Dan and his papers think I'm a prime heel.
00:49:39Here he comes.
00:49:40Now's the time.
00:49:41Isn't there some other way to...
00:49:42No.
00:49:42Not unless you want to end up joining Tomek.
00:49:45Tomek.
00:49:49Let's go.
00:50:18Where's the good doctor?
00:50:19Why, in there.
00:50:22You call the hospital?
00:50:24Yes, no change.
00:50:25Good. I'll stay here. It'll be known if he's alive or dead.
00:50:28It's dangerous to hide you here.
00:50:29Dangerous? For whom?
00:50:31All of us.
00:50:32Police will try to trace the driver of my car.
00:50:34Uh, I'll stay here.
00:50:38Very well.
00:50:39There's a small bedroom in there. You may use it.
00:50:41And there's whiskey in my desk.
00:50:44True hospitality.
00:50:46Oh, doctor.
00:50:48Why did you close that window?
00:50:51The smoke from the incinerator.
00:50:53I see.
00:50:54Won't you join me in a drink?
00:50:55I never indulge.
00:50:57Uh-huh.
00:50:57Doctor.
00:50:59Yes?
00:50:59Come on in and join me, won't you?
00:51:01No, thank you.
00:51:03Come on in, both of you.
00:51:13Listen, doctor.
00:51:14The smoke is blowing away from that window.
00:51:17Now, what are you trying to pull?
00:51:18All right.
00:51:19All right, Grusom.
00:51:20Hold everything.
00:51:21X-ray, get rid of that bomb!
00:51:22Don't move, X-ray.
00:51:29Don't show me, Grusom.
00:51:30Please.
00:51:31News flash.
00:51:32Dangerous bank robbers expected to be rounded up within 12 hours.
00:51:37Homicide's famous Dick Tracy has just revealed that one of the robbers of the Grove Street branch of the First
00:51:42National Bank has been captured after suffering severe injuries in a wild chase by the police.
00:51:46He's alive.
00:51:47Five minutes ago, Tracy reported that the injured bandit will be able to talk by morning.
00:51:51He added, and I quote, when this man talks, we will round up the most dangerous gang of criminals in
00:51:56this city's history.
00:51:57We now return you to the PM.
00:52:01That announcement saved your life, X-ray.
00:52:04What?
00:52:04I need you.
00:52:05We've got to get Melody out of that hospital.
00:52:08But that's a police hospital.
00:52:09Why not leave him there?
00:52:10Yeah?
00:52:11To talk and spoil a perfect setup?
00:52:14No.
00:52:14We've got to risk it.
00:52:15What about him?
00:52:16What about him?
00:52:17He's dead and Melody isn't worse luck.
00:52:19Go on.
00:53:00Evening.
00:53:01Evening.
00:53:02Got a corporal talking in 312.
00:53:04We came to pick him up.
00:53:06Wait a minute.
00:53:09What's the name of that surgeon again?
00:53:12Major Allen, 291st General.
00:53:16He's new to me.
00:53:17So where are you fellows?
00:53:19Just been transferred from out west.
00:53:21Oh, well, go on up.
00:53:23Now, do you know how to work it?
00:53:25Like the fingers on my hand.
00:53:38That's the gorilla, all right.
00:53:40They came in an army ambulance.
00:53:41Give me the phone, Pop.
00:53:47This is it.
00:53:48They're on their way up.
00:53:50Roger.
00:53:52Don't stop them coming down either, Pop.
00:54:04You wait here.
00:54:06If anybody questions you, you'll remember where you're from.
00:54:09291st General.
00:54:10Right.
00:54:22I'm sorry.
00:54:23No one allowed in there.
00:54:24I have orders to take his temperature every four hours.
00:54:27Yeah?
00:54:28That's right.
00:54:29Well, in that case, I'll go in with you.
00:54:36How are you, Melody?
00:54:38Mm.
00:54:41Why do we bother getting birds like him well just so we can kill them?
00:54:45Odd, isn't it?
00:54:46Yeah.
00:54:51Lost?
00:54:51Me?
00:54:52Oddly.
00:54:53Just waiting for them to, uh...
00:54:57Just waiting.
00:54:58Oh.
00:55:06Hey.
00:55:07What's the matter?
00:55:08This man is running a dangerously high temperature.
00:55:11You'd better send for the doctor.
00:55:12Not me, buddy.
00:55:13My orders are to stay right here.
00:55:18In that case, I'll do it myself.
00:55:21That's a good idea.
00:55:33What happened?
00:55:34It's in the wastebasket, Tim.
00:55:35You want me to throw it out?
00:55:36No, leave it there.
00:55:37I know, but if this stuff makes people freeze the way you say it does, I won't be of any
00:55:40help to you.
00:55:41That's right.
00:55:41I know, but you're unarmed.
00:55:43I don't like this.
00:55:45Hey, this stuff has started to smoke.
00:55:47It should.
00:55:53Mr. Tracy.
00:55:55I'm beginning to feel funny.
00:55:58So am I, Jim.
00:56:02So am I.
00:56:13I'm sorry.
00:56:14It should be clear now.
00:56:29Yes, I understand.
00:56:30Mr. Patton told me to let them go.
00:56:33Huh?
00:56:34You're right. Here they come.
00:56:37Oh, sure. Patton saw the ambulance.
00:56:40Right, sir. Bye.
00:56:43I see you got your man.
00:56:44Thanks. We did.
00:56:50Say, who do you guys think you are parking here? Can't you read?
00:56:53Sorry, we didn't see the sign.
00:56:55Didn't see the sign. What kind of excuse is that?
00:56:57Who are you guys? Where are you from?
00:56:59291st, General Hospital.
00:57:01What?
00:57:02291st. Will you please step aside?
00:57:04General, huh? That was my old outfit.
00:57:06And they sold these 41 crates a month ago.
00:57:08Where'd you pick it up?
00:57:09Look here. This man is dying.
00:57:10Yeah, and I got a rush call. So what?
00:57:12You know what I think?
00:57:13I think you guys are a couple of cadaver snatchers.
00:57:16I'm going to take a look at this thing.
00:57:19Now, wait. The other one.
00:57:21But this is ours.
00:57:22That one won't be spotted so quickly.
00:57:24Put him in that one.
00:57:27I hope nothing went wrong.
00:57:29What good? Tim would never leave Dick.
00:57:31Hey, here comes an ambulance out.
00:57:39Can I flash the rest of the boys?
00:57:41No, they're driving an army crate.
00:57:43That one belongs to the city hospital.
00:57:50That was a clever piece of work, gruesome.
00:57:52It almost misfired.
00:57:54Paul told you that corporal's name was Joseph Duggan.
00:57:56It was really John.
00:58:17How is he?
00:58:17He's still on with the effects of the gas.
00:58:20Start up the fire.
00:58:24Actimality, too.
00:58:26Start up the fire.
00:58:29Start up the fire.
00:58:30Shut up.
00:58:44Start up the fire.
00:58:47Don't mind.
00:58:48Let's go.
00:58:49Hold it.
00:58:50Turn up the fire.
00:58:50Come on.
00:58:51Turn up the fire.
00:58:55Come on.
00:58:56Pull it.
00:58:58Come on.
00:59:00Come on.
00:59:15What's the matter, bud?
00:59:17I asked the guy who stole this crate.
00:59:20Yeah, and mine.
00:59:21Yeah?
00:59:21You mean a big mug and a little guy with glasses?
00:59:24Yeah, with a patient on a litter.
00:59:26Well, I'll be a...
00:59:27That gorilla outsmarted me again.
00:59:30That gorilla outsmarted me again.
00:59:30They pulled a switch.
00:59:33We've got to follow that white ambulance.
00:59:35How do you know where it went?
00:59:36Huh? That's right.
00:59:39Sparks, this is Patton.
00:59:41Put all cars on the lookout for a White City Hospital ambulance.
00:59:44Get that? Yeah.
00:59:46It's carrying two killers and Tracy unarmed.
01:00:00Well, I'm sorry.
01:00:23I'm sorry.
01:00:23X-ray.
01:00:42ăăăăăăăăăăăăăăăăăuăă!
01:00:43I-l fian ăăăăăăăăă!
01:01:14Let's go.
01:01:33I ain't got no money.
01:01:35Come on, look!
01:01:36Let's go!
01:01:36Good, luego!
01:01:44Come on!
01:01:49I'm not going to come in after you, or don't have to.
01:01:53Remember the bank?
01:01:58You've got about 60 seconds left.
01:02:03There's no other exit, Tracy.
01:02:06This is the end of the line.
01:02:31Come on.
01:02:50Come on.
01:03:27Oh, my God.
01:03:51Let's go.
01:04:17So this is the baby that caused all the trouble, huh?
01:04:20Yes, that's the last of those devilish gas bombs, Pat.
01:04:23Soon as Dan has had a look at it, we'll file it in the Archives of Lethal Weapons.
01:04:27I want to see you, Tracy.
01:04:29Well, take a good look, Dan.
01:04:31What's the idea of selling me out to those radio vultures?
01:04:33You made me a promise.
01:04:35Promise? Who is this fellow, Pat?
01:04:36Don't know. I never saw him before.
01:04:38You promised me an exclusive story.
01:04:40Story? What story, sir?
01:04:42He could mean the story of the capture of a gang of bank robbers, Dick.
01:04:45Capture? When? Where?
01:04:47It's all here and it's all true.
01:04:48Give me that.
01:04:49Okay, Dick.
01:04:49In about 25 seconds, Pat.
01:04:51Sorry, can't wait.
01:04:52Maybe I ought to tell you about it, Dan.
01:04:53Some other time.
01:04:54Aren't you going to read it?
01:04:54Gotta make that deadline.
01:04:55This is the biggest story I've ever had anything to do.
01:04:59Dude!
01:05:15I don't know.
01:05:16But still.
01:05:16I see.
01:05:17It's all here, Sue.
01:05:17We're all here, man.
01:05:17We're all here.
01:05:18We're all here.
01:05:18We're all here.
01:05:18We're all here.
01:05:18We're here.
01:05:19All right.
01:05:20You
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